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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…
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Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the…
— William Zinsser
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Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.
— Raymond E. Feist
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Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is…
— Suze Orman
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Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.
— Roger Angell
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Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
— Christopher Darden
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Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to…
— Lois Lowry
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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
— Alice Munro
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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is…
— Doris Lessing
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Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
— David Ogden Stiers
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find…
— Adam Johnson
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